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Tundra_Creature



Joined: 11 Jun 2009
Location: Canada

PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 7:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Meh, apparently Calgary treated her well enough.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2731356


Watching it also on the news, it seems she had good reception at the University of Calgary and she even suggested that Alberta become the 51st state. Now, I'm not an Albertan, but I winced when I heard that.

I personally find her insufferable, but it would've been nice for her to have stuck around the U of O (or whatever venue they would've had for her), just for the debate and discussion. If she came to my university, I probably would've gone, just to see if she really is a psycho like she is on T.V.

However, I know she would never ever come here. We're too east for her to travel.


Anyways, here's her side of the story apparently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KrPuPA_Itg&feature=related
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Welsh Canadian



Joined: 03 Mar 2010

PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 9:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree that she should have been able to speak but only because there are people who are radicals on the other end of the spectrum just like ther and they get away with it.

Also I find that you only respond to people like AC if what she says is actually true. If people said all Welsh people were stupid. I wouldn't find it offensive because it's not true. I just choose to ignore it.

I also think University people are stupid.

You get treated better in Alberta if you are a Conserative (spl). Just look at Sarah Palin.
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mises



Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Welsh Canadian wrote:

You get treated better in Alberta if you are a Conserative (spl). Just look at Sarah Palin.


You'll just get treated better. I attended UofA and we had hoards of leftists speak and not once was there security issues or boycotts. I'm conservative as all hell and I went to see crazy leftists whenever possible. I still do.
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Welsh Canadian



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mises wrote:
Welsh Canadian wrote:

You get treated better in Alberta if you are a Conserative (spl). Just look at Sarah Palin.


You'll just get treated better. I attended UofA and we had hoards of leftists speak and not once was there security issues or boycotts. I'm conservative as all hell and I went to see crazy leftists whenever possible. I still do.


Let me re-phrase...
You get treated better in Alberta if you are a wack job (Said jokingly and in a nice way.)

Yeah I tend to agree with freedom of speech but then I start to think about what Hitler did with blaming the jews. After so long people start to believe etc
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jvalmer



Joined: 06 Jun 2003

PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ann Coulter is one rude woman. Was reading how she was insulting a female muslim student that was asking her a series of pestering question with "travel by flying carpet" or "take a camel". If she insulted me like that I'd probably take a swing at her.

Albertans don't like rioting. Calgary, or Kananaskis, hosted the G8 in 2002 and there was nothing worthy of reporting. As an Albertan I would have liked if that summit were on the front page of every major paper in the world for those 2 days. But nope, nobody came out to protest, or riot.

So anyone can have some big talk in Alberta and it won't draw much attention. That's probably why she chose Ottawa first. Would have been even more news worthy if it were in Montreal. Pretty slick PR move cancelling that Ottawa talk though.
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crossmr



Joined: 22 Nov 2008
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jvalmer wrote:
Ann Coulter is one rude woman. Was reading how she was insulting a female muslim student that was asking her a series of pestering question with "travel by flying carpet" or "take a camel". If she insulted me like that I'd probably take a swing at her.

Albertans don't like rioting. Calgary, or Kananaskis, hosted the G8 in 2002 and there was nothing worthy of reporting. As an Albertan I would have liked if that summit were on the front page of every major paper in the world for those 2 days. But nope, nobody came out to protest, or riot.

So anyone can have some big talk in Alberta and it won't draw much attention. That's probably why she chose Ottawa first. Would have been even more news worthy if it were in Montreal. Pretty slick PR move cancelling that Ottawa talk though.
Calgary had OPEC in 2000 after the seattle riots and nothing happened. Get a hockey game in edmonton though..
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caniff



Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map

PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

crossmr wrote:
Calgary had OPEC in 2000.


Jesus, they would have been better off with Coulter. OPEC is a seething mass of distended c&nts that makes Coulter look like Mary Poppins.

(edit: missed a word ferchrissakes.)


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jvalmer



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

crossmr wrote:
Calgary had OPEC in 2000 after the seattle riots and nothing happened. Get a hockey game in edmonton though..


You sure about that? Canada isn't part of OPEC. Although I think they should join, so they can have a hand in setting prices.

And I forgot about pissed off Edmonton hockey fans.
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crossmr



Joined: 22 Nov 2008
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jvalmer wrote:
crossmr wrote:
Calgary had OPEC in 2000 after the seattle riots and nothing happened. Get a hockey game in edmonton though..


You sure about that? Canada isn't part of OPEC. Although I think they should join, so they can have a hand in setting prices.

And I forgot about pissed off Edmonton hockey fans.


Quite sure about that. I was inside the fenced off section of downtown with the mass amount of RCMP and military because they were expecting riots like in Seattle.
100 people showed up, marched around the fence one noon hour and one security guard went off on some girl.
They were there in June http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/426829801.html?dids=426829801:426829801&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+14%2C+2000&author=Madhavi+Acharya&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Oil+price+soars+ahead+of+OPEC+meeting+%3B+So+far%2C+no+relief+in+sight+for+sky-high+gasoline+prices&pqatl=google
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rollo



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 4:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So apparently on ly certain ideas are acceptable in Canada? Is hate speech like thought crime? I personally loathe Ann Coulter but this kind of muzzling of any speech no matter what is scary. Ahmadinjedad has spoken in the U.S. and even bee interviewed on American network t.v. The slope is slippery!! Seems I remember there was a problem with George Gallway speaking in Canada also.
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jvalmer



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

crossmr wrote:
Quite sure about that. I was inside the fenced off section of downtown with the mass amount of RCMP and military because they were expecting riots like in Seattle.
100 people showed up, marched around the fence one noon hour and one security guard went off on some girl.
They were there in June http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/426829801.html?dids=426829801:426829801&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+14%2C+2000&author=Madhavi+Acharya&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Oil+price+soars+ahead+of+OPEC+meeting+%3B+So+far%2C+no+relief+in+sight+for+sky-high+gasoline+prices&pqatl=google


Ah, that's what you meant. That isn't an OPEC summit, it's a World Petroleum congress run but the World Petroleum Council. The two are separate but OPEC does take part in it.
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Captain Corea



Joined: 28 Feb 2005
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 3:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yup, in 28 years of living in Calgary, the biggest protest I ever witnessed was when Safeway went on strike.

I agree with the above posters, Albertans don't like protests.
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pkang0202



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Houle also reminded Coulter of the strong Canadian tradition of "restraint, respect and consideration."


I've met hundreds of Canadians coming from all parts of Canada. This is the first time I've ever heard of this strong Canadian tradition of restraint, respect, and consideration.
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TheUrbanMyth



Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 5:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

pkang0202 wrote:
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Houle also reminded Coulter of the strong Canadian tradition of "restraint, respect and consideration."


I've met hundreds of Canadians coming from all parts of Canada. This is the first time I've ever heard of this strong Canadian tradition of restraint, respect, and consideration.



It's kind of like how all Canadians wear the Maple Leaf on their backpacks when traveling abroad and say "Eh" at the end of every question.
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mises



Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired

PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2010 6:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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As for the media, they�ve long been too cowed by political correctness to do even elementary research. It took the blogger Blazing Cat Fur to discover that Fatima Al Dhaher, the poor wee thing traumatized by Ann Coulter�s camel joke at the University of Western Ontario, was a member of a Facebook group called �It�s Called Palestine Not Israel,� committed to the elimination of the Jewish state and regarding its present occupants as �subhuman� �zionazis/kikeroaches.�

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/04/08/true-north-strong-not-free/2/

We wouldn't want Ann to offend Al Dhaher.
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